Fireside chats with an industry expert feature engaging, passionate speakers whose talks expose new ideas in healthcare that are supported by concrete evidence and are relevant to current and future industry trends. Presentations will explore novel and counterintuitive approaches to solving the many complex problems facing our health system.

The analytics pathway is often described as moving upward in complexity from descriptive to diagnostic to predictive to prescriptive, with each step adding more complexity and business value. For health systems, it starts with building a team with the right mix of expertise, including data architects, operational champions, and subject matter experts. Panelists will discuss lessons learned creating the infrastructure to develop and deploy predictive analytics solutions in both clinical and business settings.

Innovation aimed at making healthcare more accessible and affordable is at its peak. Healthcare innovation has surfaced operational excellence challenges and demands across commercial operations processes, including contract management. However, with the right set of best practices and solutions, contract management can be simplified and doesn't need to be a nightmare for your organization.

The analytics pathway is often described as moving upward in complexity from descriptive to diagnostic to predictive to prescriptive, with each step adding more complexity and business value. For health systems, it starts with building a team with the right mix of expertise, including data architects, operational champions, and subject matter experts. Panelists will discuss lessons learned by creating the infrastructure to develop and deploy predictive analytics solutions in both clinical and business settings.

Integrity, trust, competence, and reliability of healthcare players, cyber theft of Identity, and personal data are matters of increasing concern.

WEDI's annual summer spectacular addresses key and emerging topics in the intersection of administrative and clinical data.

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Join the HIMSS New England Chapter to learn how one organization used their policy and advocacy work to gain recognition of broadband access as a social determinant of health.

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This webinar will highlight some of the technical and workflow challenges associated with the current regulation, highlighting how ingesting data in different formats may lead to additional overhead for health insurance providers. The presenters will discuss options for implementing the CMS Payer-to-Payer exchange, including how the HL7 Da Vinci Project Implementation Guides can help streamline implementations. 

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The status of a patient-provider relationship can clarify for value-based organizations which patients will benefit from enhanced care engagement tactics, quantifies the quality and cost impact of an improved relationship, and places the focus on the “whole-person”, and their overall experience with the healthcare delivery system.

Pharmacies play a key role in helping hospitals and health systems improve operational results, clinical quality, and patient outcomes. To help with this mission, healthcare organizations are increasingly recognizing the value of leveraging the resources, skills, and expertise from an outside pharmacy partner. This partner can implement best practices and upgraded pharmacy capabilities to transform how an entire facility operates, produce strong financial results and improve experiences for caregivers, staff, and patients.